With the beautiful sunny weather we had this weekend I was in full on spring mode. I know we are not there yet, but inject a bit of spring into my home I decided that fresh blooms were in order.

My favorite part of going into the city is the access of fresh blooms at all of the corner deli’s. They are beautiful and cheap! I’m out in the suburbs so it’s not always possible for me to get fresh flowers from the city. When I’m in a bind I head to Fairway Market. If you have one near you I would check them out. They are always full of flowers and each bunch is around $10.

I knew right away exactly where I was going to place them. A couple of weekends ago I had gone to the outlets. I had left pretty much empty handed, but did find two greek key tissue boxes on total clearance at William Sonoma Home. They were originally $34.95 and we got two for $1.98. I have teeny tiny bathrooms with very little counter space so using them as traditional tissue holders was not going to happen, but I knew I could put them to use.

Here is what you need:

-Tissue box
-small bowl that fits inside tissue box
-floral foam
-scissors

Step 1:

{ Cut foam to size and place inside bowl}

Step 2:

{Cover green foam with water}

Step 3:

{Flip over tissue box and place bowl inside}

Step 4:

{Cut flowers to size. I wanted mine to peek out just a bit from the opening so I cut them all at the standard height. When you start to place them in foam due to angles some will need to be trimmed a little more.}

Step 5:

{In order to get the arrangement you want I pretend I’m making a bouquet before so that I can see if I like the arrangement or want to switch things up.}

Step 6:

{I start building my arrangements from the opposite ends and then build towards the middle and sides.}

Step 7: FINISHED & ENJOY

{I first tried it them out in my pink living room!}

After I finished the second arrangement I moved them to my dining room:

I’m so happy that I didn’t pass up the clearance tissue boxes at the outlets. Sometimes you just need to think outside of the box. I knew right away that I would put them to good use. Do you have any chic tissue boxes that you can re work and fill with blooms?